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Watch for the Women’s Month issue of the Philippines Graphic Reader!

Available on March 15 at Lazada and Shopee and in select 7-Eleven outlets

Featuring:

SHORT STORIES

Β·Β Β Β Β Β Β Β All Fall Down by Menchu Aquino Sarmiento
Β·Β Β Β Β Β Β Β Long before Darkness, Or, The Night Ileana Fell in Love by Rosa May M. Bayuga
Β·Β Β Β Β Β Β Β The Times, They Are A-Changing by Nicias J. Alameda
Β·Β Β Β Β Β Β Β Issa, One and Only by Irene Sarmiento

POEMS

Β·Β Β Β Β Β Β Β Indignation as Elegy by Ralph Semino GalΓ‘n
Β·Β Β Β Β Β Β Β Patterns by Merlita Lorena Tariman
Β·Β Β Β Β Β Β Β Arranging Furniture at Midnight by Totel V. de Jesus
Β·Β Β Β Β Β Β Β Two Poems by Pablo A. Tariman

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Started in 1927, the Philippines Graphic is the longest-running printed magazine of national circulation that provides relevant news and features and promotes Philippine literature.

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Missiles maim the undead, too: Kyiv’s cathedral, the Battle of Manila, and why war erases culture

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In the history of mankind, wars have taken away far more than it created anything. The 1945 Battle of Manila and the recent attacks in Ukraine's capital of Kyiv have shown us what we lose as a species when a warβ€”and the people behind themβ€”threatens culture. IT IS MOST OFTEN in times of war that entire evenings could become as bright as summer noon. Flashes from missile explosions would light up the sky just as well as the morning sun, long enough to see the before-and-after silhouettes of buildings.  Ukraine has known for four years now that no relief could...
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Looking back at the future of Filipino writers

Von Zyron Alimorong -
One day, toward the end of 1967, National Artist for Literature Bienvenido Lumbera sat down to look critically at the state of Philippine literature and what sorts of styles and literary figures have come to the scene.  Lumbera’s particular interest was with the outputs that came out in the decade between 1955 and 1965 to help β€œsee where Philippine writing seems to be going,” as that time period β€œsaw intensive literary activity which resulted in the development of the novel in English and the rise of new writing in Pilipino.” The result was Lumbera’s β€œLooking Back at the Future of...
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LOOKING BACK AT THE FUTURE OF PHILIPPINE WRITING

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ONLY the very naive or the very cynical would try to predict the future course of Philippine literature. There are only the weekly magazines or the occasional books as signposts to indicate trends, and these signposts do not give very coherent directions.
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THE PETRON SELLOUT

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The sale of the national oil company to a foreign corporation betrays the national interest, endangers the country’s security, and sticks of graft and corruption. Petron Corporation is unquestionably the most valuable corporate asset of the Philippine governmentβ€”the most precious gem in the country’s dwindling collection of public corporations. Yet it has been sold to a foreign corporation controlled by Arab businessmen. The price of the sale is allegedly much lower than its actual worth. At the same time, the sale endangers the national security and national economy because it places the country’s oil supply totally in the hands of...
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